Testing Magento with random URLs in JMeter
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of randomness into your testing for a web server. In the wild you have almost
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JMeter test script for layered navigation
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It may not be the bestest, most perfectest tool in the world, but a) it’s
What is the first event fired in Magento?
controller_front_init_before Technically, it’s resource_get_tablename, but the first usable event is controller_front_init_before. But this is also a bit of a trick question. controller_front_init_before is ONLY triggered from the global area. The first usable event in
4 charts that are guaranteed to make you a better performance detective
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either borderline brilliant, stupid, or common knowledge. What I said was something along the lines
Magento memory utilization for backend work
I was talking with a colleague about my previous blog post on memory utilization in Magento and he noted that I had not taken into account backend tasks. Which he was right about. So
Using events in Magento 2
Note, this is based off of an older version of the Magento 2 codebase. With the minimal research I have done on Magento 2 recently the only thing I am apprehensive about is the
(Basic) Configuring the Magento 2 Dependency Injection Container
My previous blog post on the DIC (Dependency Injection Container) in Magento 2 covered just some basics of using the Magento 2 DIC. The purpose of that post was to, perhaps, make you less
(Starting) Using Dependency Injection in Magento 2
One of the biggest switches you will experience when moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is inversion of control. This is a very different concept to get used to but once you have
Creating a module in Magento 2
Note This article is 4 years old (as I’m writing this). This information is probably out of date. This is the first of what I expect will be several blog posts on Magento 2